MA Fine Art
MA Art and Design by Research

The MA Show this year comes after a hiatus of two years - the last exhibition being in 2019.

Our MA students have lots of stories to tell. Emerging from adversity they have created something very special together.

A lot of educational institutions in art talk of community, the value of shared experiences and cross-disciplinary approaches. The fertility that prospers in the ground when the many, rather than the few, stand upon it. Students, artists, theorists and practitioners working together as a creative force to improve their own understanding of what it is to be an artist, what artists can do and why they might do it. These are the foundations upon which our MA courses are built, foundations that have been sorely tested in the last twenty months. Through screens we maintained the dialogue and continued in whatever way we could to sustain something of that communal experience. After the lockdowns we cautiously returned to the studios and the students occupied those spaces with vigour, shifting through the gears in determined fashion to make sense and put into practice all of those crystal screen conversations we’d had.

The artists here from the MA Fine Art and MA by Research in Art & Design have gathered their collective approaches and pulled diverse concerns together. Risks have been taken, chance embraced and lessons have been, and will continue to be, learned. After their MA, after this show, they will continue to gather in their studio spaces and talk through this work. Then, they will move forward.

New Art Gallery Walsall has been instrumental in the development and support of our graduates. Every member of staff within the walls of this fine gallery have been supportive and treated our students with care and respect. Deborah Robinson and Kevin Storrar have gone above and beyond to mentor our students through the lockdowns and then back in the school, we are indebted to them for the unwavering belief in the development of graduate artists. Thanks also to Stephen Snoddy whose vision in building relationships between the institutions has been crucial to the valuable professional experience that our students encounter. I am genuinely proud to have shared in the experiences of this group of artists, they have remained an absolute pleasure to work with and I am sure that all of the staff who have taught, talked with, and worked alongside these emerging artists will join me in that sentiment. They have endured much and have grown stronger for it, I have no doubt that amongst this group there will be stars of the future. What is clear from this exhibition is that a creative community has been forged and is alive and thriving in our school and this particular group of graduates is proof that in today’s world there is a place for collective creative experiences… a place for arts education… a place for art in all its brilliant and beautiful guises.

Dr Dean Kelland Course Leader: MA Fine Art, MA Art and Design by Research

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